The Dow was down 44 points. Gov. Rick Perry was up for a live chat @SquawkStreet. The financial cable network, CNBC, was touting Texas as “pro-business,” the message that the retiring Republican governor has been carrying around the country under...

North Carolina has an all-Republican state government this year for the first time in a century. The high-profile tumult that has accompanied the takeover sent the state’s top development officials to New York this week. Their message: North Carolina’s urban...

Updated Oct. 6 at 9:50 am and 12:34 pm EDT On the first Sunday of the partial government shutdown, think of the talk shows as quote machines. With some ominous quotes at that: Boehner: “We are not going to pass...

The eyes of Texas are on New York businesses. Texas Gov. Rick Perry’s 2013 business poaching tour rolled into New York City today with a meeting for potential recruits at Hill Country Barbecue in the Flatiron District. Perry, wearing black...

Gov. Jerry Brown isn’t worried about the miniscule amount of money that Texas Gov. Rick Perry is spending on radio ads airing in California urging companies there to leave for the Lone Star state. The 30-second ad features Perry knocking...

President Barack Obama stopped at Michelle’s Bakery in Ohio today. In his unscheduled stop after a campaign event at the Cleveland West Side Market, a 100-year-old collection of mom and pop-style vendors, the president started at a bakery whose owner...

In the YouTube campaign, the president has taken a wide lead. No. 1 in the top-trending English-language political videos last week: President Barack Obama’s Web-ad about “The Choice:” 1.958 million hits. “It’s a choice between two very different plans for...

CEOs still see risks in President Barack Obama’s health-care law, even after last week’s Supreme Court ruling. After complaining about the uncertainty of having the rules up for grab during the case, the decision doesn’t seem to have settled the...